Word: goals
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Greenspan's first goal is to reassure the financial world that he will be as politically independent-minded as Volcker was. During Greenspan's confirmation hearing July 21, a questioner asked the conservative nominee whether he might succumb to "muscle" from the White House to stimulate the economy with an easy-money policy as the 1988 elections drew near. Greenspan responded that he "obviously would reject" any such pressure and declared the Fed's political independence to be "terribly critical." He has little choice, moneymen say. "His life will be very difficult if he is perceived as someone who will...
...make an 007 film seem slow moving. But Bonds were never aimed at the thrills-above-all youth market. Or even, primarily, to the U.S. (where, by the way, each new Bond film is consistently among its year's Top Ten box- office winners). The series has a broader goal: to be the last of that fine old breed of movies that can offer something for everybody, adults as well as kids, in Europe, Asia and South America...
Unlike Oliver North, Admiral Poindexter took the spear of responsibility in his own chest. But through the testimony of both was threaded a common theme: their goal was to cast a shroud of deniability around their activities...
...allies. Gorbachev's new accommodating line could also lull the West into a false sense of security and endanger the cohesiveness of the Atlantic Alliance. By employing the very opposite of cold war tactics, the Soviets could conceivably make more headway than ever in pursuit of their long- standing goal: gaining influence throughout Europe...
...challenge will be finding some accommodation on Star Wars. The Soviets have inched away from their across-the-board opposition to Strategic Defense Initiative research by hinting that they might permit some testing, perhaps even in space. Kissinger argues that finding a middle ground is impossible because Washington's goal is to deploy SDI and Moscow's goal is to do away with the program; a long delay, he argues, would in effect kill it. But Schlesinger, who does not believe that a delay in deploying SDI would necessarily be fatal to the program, says the outline of a grand...